Start off with a blank template; it doesn't matter which one, and head over to Elements
and select a Shape. And we're going to select a circle. Make sure it's nicely centred in
your template by aligning it with the purple lines. You can edit the colour of your circle,
it really doesn't matter, it just depends on your personal preferences. I love this
turquoise colour. And now I'm going to copy the circle so that we end up with two. And
you'll find out why in just a minute. Now alter the transparency so that you see the
two circles very, very clearly. And you'll see why again in just a minute. Now re-size
one of the circles so that it sits right in the centre of the bigger circle. Just change
the transparency again, make sure it's centred. Now head over to the Text tab, click on it
so that you bring up a text box in the centre, like that. Make sure it's centred. And I'm
just going to add a little bit of text, so "Canva Curved Text" is quite appropriate.
Head over to the tab at the top to change the size if you want. That's a little bit
too big so I'm going to change it and make it smaller. Now there's no easy way around
doing this so what you have to do is copy and paste individual letter; that sounds like
a really laborious step but actually when you get used to it, it doesn't take very long
at all. So I'm just creating individual letters as you can see there. And so I don't bore
you too much I'm just going to speed this all up for you.
And there you have all the completed letters.
In a past tutorial I showed you how to lock elements so that they don't
move around accidentally so I'm just going to lock these circles by heading over to the
top right hand corner and clicking the little 'lock' icon. And you'll see why shortly why
this is quite an important step. So those two circles are now locked. I can select the
whole of my text now and move it around but I can still select the individual letters
and move them separately.
So I'm just going to zoom in a little bit so you can see really
clearly what I'm going to do next. I'm going to select the letter "C", I'm going to grab
these curved arrows and I'm just going to rotate that to the side. I'll zoom in a little
bit more so that it's really, really clear. So I've rotated that and I'm going to just
move the "N" out of the way. Now I'm going to grab the curved arrows again and I'm going
to move the "A" as well. And you can see what I'm doing now. This is why it's so important
to have two circles because I'm aligning each letter with the inner and outer circles so
that you get the curve exactly right. So the bottom of the letters needs to sit right on
the inner circle.
I think you can get the idea now.
It just takes a little bit of patience
but, as I say, once you get used to doing this you can do it really quickly.
Unfortunately there isn't a work-around at the minute, we have asked Canva and we're trying to get Canva
to set up some curved text so that might be in the pipeline very shortly. I will let you know!
So I'm just going to speed this up again for you...because I think you've got the idea
by now.
Don't worry if the text isn't exactly centred because there is a solution and I'll
show you how to do this now. So you're going to select all the text and just move it. Change
the curve and position it again. I'll just zoom in so you can see it again. You might
have to tweak the letters slightly just to make sure they sit on the circles again; it's
just a tiny tweak to make sure it looks good. You get the idea anyway. So now we've aligned
all the letters we can do without the circles. So what you're going to do is you're going
to head over to the top right hand corner and unlock your circles so that you can actually
delete them. I'm going to keep the inside circle because I'm going to change it and
I'm going to make another copy. I'm going to make a slightly smaller copy that sits
inside the bigger version again. I'm going to make it a white circle and I'm going to
just change the transparency so that it's totally opaque and I'm going to change the
colour of the larger circle to make it a grey one. Then I'm going to head back over to the
left hand side and select "Elements" and I'm going to choose a square, resize it and I'm
going to zoom out a little bit so you can get a better idea of what I'm doing. Resize
the square and make that white as well. So you can see what I've done there.
The text is not quite centred but you get the idea anyway, you can tweak that.
And now I've done the text I'm just going to play around with it just to show you what you can do.
Let me know what you think of today's Canva Creative tip. Thanks very much for watching
and I will see you next week!